Mont Blanc from Chamonix might be the most commonly done 10,000 foot plus dayhike. ... digits ... shape) ... should ... climb it ... actually...
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Mark D Adrian
markadrian@...
Aug 2, 2002 5:36 am
Rethinking this, I think additional emphasis could or should be put on difficulty. I mean, Whitney is a virtual "freeway" to its summit from the east side ...
(Mark Adrian) ... (Andy) This seems to be the track taken by serious mountaineering organizations like AAC, where an unclimbed difficult route attracts all the...
Has anyone done any intensive work on fleshing out the Idaho 2000' prominence list? Just curious, as I've found a few past the 50 Finest/near miss list and am...
A few days ago Zach requested some info on the ID peaks below the first 50 listed. I sent him Edwards computer list, and he has done some work off it: (Zach...
Hi everyone. I'm posting to get an idea of who the active mountain statistics keepers are. For the past several years (since TOPO maps have been available on...
(Dave U) ... (Andy) Roy Schweiker is a good person to get in contact with concerning Eastern US lists. He has worked on quite a few, including prominence lists...
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Roy Schweiker
roy.schweiker@...
Aug 13, 2002 6:43 pm
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To: Prominence egroup, John, Mark (John Vitz) ... (Andy) Our congratulations go to John for his "50 finest" completion in his home state of California. Updated...
Roy: Thanks for the info - I just wanted to make a note that the 1-mile max is measured from a mountian summit. I could get higher values if I move away from...
Hi, especially to the UK contingent. On our trip to Scotland my wife and I, with one or both sons each day, visited four Munros. These included two 2000'...
(Mark Adrian - private email) ... (Andy) I did give some thoughts to the next level of "granularity" after cohp. Township HP, and lat/long rectangles, and the...
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Jerry & Betty Brekhus
Brekhus@...
Aug 22, 2002 4:48 am
Sunday, August 18th, Betty and I went on a 24-mile dayhike to the summit of Mt. Sheridan in Yellowstone Park. This is my 10th peak on the WY 50 Finest list. It...
I've recently calcualted the Imp of a whole slew of Alaskan peaks, and in particular I have the Top 20 peaks pretty well nailed down. It's a nice list of very...
Ken, I'd say not that unusual, but the spring this year was prolonged wet and cold, so not much chance for the bogs to dry out. In some years, May and/or June...
... Its usually pretty wet, but this is a very wet year, so its probably worse than usual. We had a long run of dry years in the early 1990s and the peat dried...
(Bob Martin - UT Prominence trip) Mark Nichols and I went to some UT prominence mts. Here's what we did: 8/23 On the way to meeting Mark, I drove up Bruin...
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Jerry & Betty Brekhus
Brekhus@...
Sep 5, 2002 11:20 pm
I checked the MT 50 Finest list and pored over topo maps, identifying 27 of Montana's 56 counties where the most prominent peak differs from the HP. The 27...
(Andy) Fred Johnson draws our attention to the Nihon Hyaku-meizan, the Japan's 100 Great Mountains list. This is the first Japanese Mountain list I've run...
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Jerry & Betty Brekhus
Brekhus@...
Sep 6, 2002 10:43 pm
Here's what I came up with for the best prominence in each MT county. As I was getting the list ready to submit, I noticed that Bluff Mountain in Wheatland...
(David Olson - reports another Big Hole for WA) ... (Andy) A bit further south is http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&n=5207406&e=522696&s=25&size=m which also...
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Mark D Adrian
markadrian@...
Sep 9, 2002 4:21 pm
While out hiking this weekend, I snapped this digipix of San Jacinto (l) and San Gorgonio. If anyone has webspace, it would be an idea to start a gallery of...
The thought occurred to me that we could "involuntarily" add famous climbers to the prominence CENTURY CLUB 5) CENTURY CLUB - at least 100 peaks with 2000'...
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Mark D Adrian
markadrian@...
Sep 9, 2002 9:02 pm
After supplying at Trader Joes in Hillcrest (San Diego, CA, USA), we got an early afternoon start towards the Santa Rosa Mtns last Saturday and specifically,...
I don't have the documentation but it's pretty clear that Beckey is a prominence Centurion. Harder: is he a Centurion in the following two senses? (1) 100...
For more on Beckey's accomplishments, see list at back of "Challenge of the North Cascades" (David) ... Highly unlikely. His big goal is unclimbed routes....
<Mark A> If anyone has webspace, it would be an idea to start a gallery of prominence pictures. <Bob> We've got web space right here at Yahoo! Click the Photos...
Does anyone out there know of a list of UK summits with 600m of prominence? These would be essentially equivalent to 2000 ft. prominent peaks in the US, for...
